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Unlike trail cams that trigger on short-range motion, the Day 6 Outdoors™ PlotWatcher® provides a timelapse video of a full day's activity across a defined area by capturing HD images taken as fast as every second. You can then review this video (in 3 minutes or less!) to track specific game movements and identify key travel patterns, including entry and exit points. The original PlotWatcher provides 84 hours of time-lapse video (7 days' coverage), but the PlotWatcher Pro kicks it up a notch with 10 times the battery life (3 months). Built-in 2.5'' LCD for on-board camera set-up, video aiming, camera status messages, and defined time-of-day for video start and stop. SD card storage up to 32GB (not included); includes GameFinder software. Runs on 8 AA batteries (not included).
Manufacturer model #: TLC-200-C.

Provides a timelapse video of a full day's activity across a defined area

Captures HD images as fast as every second

10 times the battery life of the original Plotwatcher (up to 3 months!)

Not your average time lapse camera
This is a great investment it is called the Plotwatcher because it does that and more. I read earlier reviews from some that obviously do not own the camera. This camera does not use a motion trigger in anyway. it takes a picture based on the time increment you set continuously for the time periods you set it. so no worries about the game you want to capture passing outside of the range of the motion detector to trigger a picture. It then combines all frames into an HD movie. I set it up along with 2 Moultrie IR55 Cameras, one mounted right under the Plotwatcher Pro and more than half the game to include bobcats, turkey, hogs, and deer were missed by the combined cameras and captured by the Plot Watcher Pro. The big positive on this camera is the battery life. I ran it from 6am to 10 am with a time lapse pause that I set to come back on at 3pm until 9pm for 21 days on 8 AA batteries. It used 7.3 gig of storage and still had 85% battery life. The down side is, it will work at night, BUT since there is no flash or light it records darkness. I don't hunt at night and still have the availability of a regular game cam in its place. But also because it has no light you will not alert the game at anytime either. We have all had a deer or turkey walk up and stare right at the camera as the Led flash went off. there is no wakeup time so you don't miss your game because it moved to quickly through before the camera woke up and it hides well in the wood line with the camo and a design that is not a box. In 21 days I was able to see how the animals traveled in a new area, and was able to discern where to place my archery stand based on several buck's that crossed the area. By the way the majority of the buck’s crossing were not captured by the other 2 motion trigger game cams. I am purchasing 3 more for other shooting lanes and for scouting new areas. Great for security too! I put a pictureof a bobcat moving down the backside woodline of my plot and a buck that crossed 80 yards from my stand and 75 yards from the feeder so no camera was set anywhere near there and without this i would have missed him.
July 27, 2011

Steady Performer
I set this unit up mid July 2011 and it has been taking pics every 5 seconds from sun up to sun down ever since. I am on only my second set of batteries now, 146 days later! This second set of AA batteries still has 50% life left. I am astonished that it is so conservative on energy considering I used knock off brand batteries and I am NOT letting the camera sleep from 10:00am-2:00pm which would save even more.
The overall use is super easy. I had great results from the first day and have not been disappointed yet. I use SD cards. I put in 8G when I know I'll be back within a week to change. When longer I use 32G which will take pics all day for 28 days or more the way I have it set up.
Low light pics are grainy, but it sharpens up nicely after the sun comes up. I included a low light pic (taken at eye level) so you can see the worse case scenario.
This is a great tool for figuring out movement patterns. It sees far into the woods as foilage allows. I usually have it up in my stand to see what I missed when not hunting. I love that it can be up so high. Since it does not need motion to take a pic, it doesn't matter where you put it.
Only two minor complaints. The temperature is not reading correctly below 40 degrees and the playback program that detects movement automatically is not very effective when the camera is set up in dense woods, since it reads the sunlight pattern changes on the forest floor as movement in the image. I tried to adjust the sensitivity on this feature, but then it missed the animals. To be fair, it does work well out in the open fields. I have not contacted Day6Outdoors about the temp problem, mainly because it is a minor glich and I'm having too much fun with it to take it off line!
This unit has also captured trespassers who I could identify. Some folks had a habit of visiting my foodplot, and I was able to inform them that I had numerous images of them (when they denied being there). I was able to nip that problem before the hunting season began.
Only other items I needed were the 8 AA batteries, the two SD cards (only one is needed) and a cheap card reader since my computer is old and could not read them on its own.
This has been a great purchase!
December 6, 2011

Love it so far
I have had my PlotWatcher deployed for about 6 weeks now, in different locations for 1-2 weeks at a time. I am amazed at how much activity is occurring during daylight hours. I've seen a group of wild hogs, multiple deer, coyotes, and even packs of stray dogs, all at varying distances from the camera that probably would not have triggered a motion-triggered camera. I'm taking pics every 5 seconds, about 10-11 hours per day, and 6 weeks later the batteries are still showing a very strong charge. My only disappointment is that animals moving quickly come out very blurry.
January 6, 2015

response to 1st reviewer
It does what other cameras don't which is to shoot continuously with no triggering required. It allows you to KNOW what is happening. Who cares what's there at 2AM? You can't hunt at night. This thing shows you what you can hunt when you can hunt.
All the benefits Plot Watcher points out are spot on.
For those complaining about battery life...if you set it to shoot every 10 sec. you will get 4320 pics for a 12 hour period. How many shots can your point and shoot take on a set of batteries? Think about it.
June 3, 2011

No. The camera is designed to take pictures during day light (as per specs). In reality, this day light is over an hour after sun rise. Here in Edmonton, sunset these days is at 9:35. The camera kept taking pictures until 10:30 PM. This should capture any deer/game moving during legal shooting hours. The camera does not have a flash so cannot take pictures at night as far as I know. I am not sure if it will take pictures if you provide your own source of light (like in a surveillance situation). But for hunting purposes, which is what it is designed for (I think), it covers legal shooting hours and more, pretty well.

Also, the camera takes pics only, but create a movie out of them. It is very effective and just as close to taking a movie as possible.

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Not a bad area at all. I set it on my deck to take pictures. The houses behind mine are 60 to 70 yards away.From that far the field of view (area covered) covered 4 houses next to each other (which the distances between them). With me living in the city, the distance between the houses were not great, but it covered the area of 4 decent size houses (2400+ square foot houses)

no look at it like this if you had a video camera like the security cameras that skip frames and it had no zoom that is what it catches. so will it catch 5 acres possibly will you be able to make out the deer crossing at 1000 yards probably not. I use mine on a food plot that is 150 yards long and it catches the game great at the end of the 150 it is tough to see if the deer has horns or not though. this will help you see where and when the deer or game is crossing so you can move it or set up a still camera at the area. I also use it to watch for people where they are not suppose to be like on my food plot...

This camera is designed to watch large areas. How large depends on the available light and the contour of the land. Typically, it can see what you might see with your eyes. It can very easily cover everything that happens on a 5 acre food plot.

You can catch movement but not specific characteristics of a certain deer more than 100 yards or so. I use mine to strictly define travel patterns and then use my other cams to pinpoint a certain buck I want to chase.

Per the manufacturer, it is impossible to answer this question definitively. The best way to think about it is to imagine you are looking at it with the naked eye and you can see in a 52-degree fan angle from the surface of the camera. In other words, how well the camera will "see" is dependent upon how good and clear the lighting is at that time, how the terrain lies, etc. Typically, if you can see something with your eye, you will see it with the camera.

Another rule of thumb is that you can typically see deer moving at 300 yards. You can identify whether you are looking at a buck at about 150 yards. You can count points on a buck at about 75 yards. These are rough generalizations, but might help. In addition, you can go to their web site at www.day6outdoors.com and look at the accessory lenses that they sell. There you will see some sample pictures taken with each lens that show you what you might see at a given distance and width.

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It comes with a black nylon strap. It has rectangular slots in the back for that strap and it has two circular holes in the back. I personally do not use the strap because it stands out and makes the camera easy to spot. I run camo rope through the two holes, then around a tree and tie a knot in the other side.

It comes with a strap that goes around trees. There is a room for adding a cable for added safety, but of course it does not come with the cable. I understand there are also boxes for them, but in all cases, the camera has the necessary loops for a strap (which again, comes with it) or a cable (which is optional).

The PlotWatcher Pro comes with an adjustable strap that fits through slots molded into the back of the camera. In addition, there is a female receiver on the bottom of the camera that accepts a 1/4-20 threaded screw such as you typically find on a camera tripod mount.

I have been using mine on a regular camera tripod i painted camo. This way you can mount it anywhere even if there are no good trees. It has a built in Master Python lock holes moulded in the back plastic. You can also use bungee cords. Tree screw mounts are available that use the camera mount on the bottom.

there is a strap that mounts to a tree just like every other camera on the market. i am not aware of any after market mounts. i used a fence post i placed in the ground to cover a clear cut and it worked very well

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Yes. That is what it is designed for. To take pictures during shooting hours (and it goes beyond that a little, too). For instance, here in Edmonton you can hunt half an hour before sunrise until half an hour after sunset. This camera takes pictures to at least one hour after sunset. I have not tested yet for sunrise, but I am sure it will take pictures way before sunrise. Also, you can set it to take pictures from and to whatever hours you like...i.e 9 AM to 8PM (for instance), etc. You can also set it to skip hours during the day. So you can set it from 9 to 8, but skip taking pictures from 12 to 2 (or whatever hours you like). I hope that answers your question.

Yes, it has the setting to only shoot during daylight hours. On the camera it should say light based

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It activates with daylight but you can adjust the timeframes. However, it does not have flash so it does not work at night. Flash would not work anyway because this covers a large area, i.e. when deer may be 100 yards away. A flash would not work tha far away.

Yes, that is what I like about it. It has two modes. One where it turns on when enough light is available for good photos or you can program the start time and stop time and it has an optional mid-day skip feature where it can hibernates for 2-3 hours in the middle of the day to save battery and memory but the battery and memory life is longer than needed. I let mine run from 6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.

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